09/02/2026
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๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐
Among the many summer visitors to the Kule Folklore Centre, we were delighted to welcome guests from Melbourne, Australia โ Olia and Marko Pavlyshyn, who are well known to many in our Alberta community and in Ukrainian academia worldwide.
Marko Pavlyshyn is an emeritus professor of Ukrainian Studies at Monash University and former head of its Mykola Zerov Centre for Ukrainian Studies. He is a prominent scholar of Ukrainian literature and culture, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and an international member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Both Marko and Olia are active and influential members of the Ukrainian community of Victoria province and across Australia.
During their visit, the Pavlyshyns learned about the KuFCโs recent activities and were gifted a copy of our latest annual report, 25 ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด. They also explored the organization and work of the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives, documenting some of its practices through photographs and video, with the aim of adapting these materials for use by Ukrainian community archives in Victoria.
We are very grateful to Olia and Marko for their kind donation of ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ฑ๐ช by Zaachariaha Fielding โ the official poster for the 2026 National NAIDOC Week, Australia's national celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures โ to the BMUFAโs rich poster collection.
Left to right: Nataliia Yesypenko, Oleksandr Pankieiev, Marko Pavlyshyn, Olia Pavlyshyn
